Bachelor S Degree

U.S. Census data ranked Maryland as the fourth-most-educated state in 2000 with 31.7 percent of its residents completing at least a bachelor's degree. Massachusetts ranked first, with 35 percent; West Virginia finished last, with 14.1 percent. The national rate is 25.1 percent. State......Percent of residents with ..........a bachelor's degree or more.........Rank Massachusetts.......35.0..........................1 Connecticut...........33.3..........................2 Colorado......

Ellen Kelly chosen to head St. Anne's middle school Ellen Kelly has joined St. Anne's Day School as the new middle school head after a national search. In her 26th year as an educator, Kelly was most recently head of school at Jemicy School in Baltimore. A native of Baltimore, Kelly attended Notre Dame High School. She earned a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a master's in education with a concentration in reading from the University of Hartford.

James J. McGlothern: In an obituary published Saturday, the name of James Jefferson McGlothern's college was inadvertently omitted. Mr. McGlothern earned his bachelor's degree in 1956 from Loyola College. The Sun regrets the omission.

Milton J. Mack, 79, teacher, Senior Olympics champion Milton Joseph Mack, a retired educator and Senior Olympics runner, died Thursday of cardiac arrest at Bon Secours Hospital. He was 79 and lived in West Baltimore. He retired in 1974 from the Prince George's County school system, where he taught science and mathematics at Frederick Douglass High School in Upper Marlboro. Earlier, he had taught in Laurel. Born and raised in Laurel, he earned his bachelor's degree in education in 1945 at what is now Bowie State University.

Lawrence A. Williams, 54, Baltimore cab driver Lawrence A. Williams, a longtime Baltimore cab driver, died Saturday of a heart attack at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 54. For more than 20 years, he had driven cabs for the Yellow and Royal cab companies. Born in Northwest Baltimore, he was a graduate of Carver Vocational-Technical High School and received an associate's degree from then-Community College of Baltimore. He served in the infantry in Vietnam and was discharged in 1968.

Jan Kiphart is the new registrar at Western Maryland College and will start this semester, along with other staff members in development and student affairs. As registrar, she will oversee the production and maintenance of academic records for all undergraduate and graduate students. The registrar's office also reports and posts grades, produces class schedules, certifies graduation requirements and processes transcript requests. Kiphart earned a bachelor's degree from Colorado State University.

Lt. Col. George E. Peoples, M.D., a resident of Fulton, has been selected as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans for 2001 by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. The award is presented annually to Americans with exceptional achievements and who have demonstrated service to humanity. Peoples, 38, a surgical oncologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, has discovered and developed vaccines that have proven applicable to a wide variety of cancers, according to the medical center.

John W. Giles already had a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees and a Ph.D. in physics when he enrolled in school again. This time, at a community college. Looking for a back-up career, the Boonsboro resident studied computer programming - putting him in the growing ranks of community college students who are coming to class with degrees in hand. Many assume that people who choose to attend community college go there first and move on to a university. But across the country, more students are trying education the other way around, prompted by the need for new skills or new careers.

Western Maryland College welcomes 10 full-time and one half-time undergraduate and graduate faculty for the 2000-2001 academic year, according to Samuel Case, interim dean and provost of the college. The college also has hired one adjunct undergraduate faculty member, as well as a number of professors who will serve one-year appointments. New full-time members are: Lt. Col. Donald Craig, professor and chair of military science. The new leader of the Army ROTC Green Terror Battalion comes to WMC from Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he was division chief for the Leader Development Division in the Center for Army Leadership.

College plans open house for education courses Carroll Community College will hold a Teacher Education Open House at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the 1601 Washington Road campus. Information about the college's classes in early childhood education, elementary and secondary education, and the two new Maryland Department of Education approved reading courses will be available to students seeking an education degree or teachers needing recertification. Education advisers Elizabeth Little, professor and chairwoman of arts, honors, education and academic services; Justine Parezo, assistant professor and director of the Holniker Early Learning Center; and Susan Sies, assistant professor, will be available to talk to students.